If you found a piece of paper, what writing on it would convince you it was dropped by a time traveler?
@liw@toot.liw.fi nothing i can think of right now would immediately convince me in the same moment of picking up the piece of paper. i would probably think someone very imaginative wrote whatever it was and play it down.
maybe maybe there are a few things like predictions about the future that after some time if they come true would convince me.
Strong predictions for the future, that come to pass and weird carbon 14 signatures.
I think the isotope dating is probably the stronger evidence, but wouldn't think of it without something to flag the paper as being odd.
@liw "It all started when Lars found this piece of paper."
@liw We are all time travelers. I wrote this in the past.
@liw It was tomorrow…
"I'm really happy Trump is dead before me".
@liw Predict some stock prices. Or predict some surprising news headlines.
@liw hash of a commit of a photo of the piece of paper
@liw for various reasons this is actually the NIST standard for communicating the existence of time travel. In this essay I will